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As Christopher Jencks and Joseph Swingle point out in the current American Prospect , "[t]hese families are only half the story."
But of course the large outline of this history of how academic qualifications became the key consideration for college and university admissions isn't very secret at all--it's been told by Christopher Jencks and David Riesman in The Academic Revolution , more than 30 years ago, and in other studies of American higher education, and part of the story is also told in The Bell Curve , as you suggest.
One cannot be conclusive on this but I am impressed at the degree to which serious people--among them for example Christopher Jencks, but also others--were convinced this is an important factor.
(So, increasingly, by the way, do a number of "liberal" social policy experts. Read Christopher Jencks and Meredith Phillips' important book The Black-White Test Score Gap .)
The Jencks and Swingle article provides some of that necessary missing information for the nation as a whole--as much as the existing statistics can provide.